HOUSING: Switch at the Top

To boss the Government's Housing and Home
Finance Agency, President Eisenhower last week chose a man tailor-made
for the job. He is Norman P. Mason, 62, head of the Federal Housing
Administration and the Government's No. 2 housing man. As a replacement
for Albert M. Cole, 57, who is resigning to take a big job with a
Reynolds Metals Co. subsidiary, Administrator Mason moves into the top
job with plenty of experience behind him. A onetime Chelmsford, Mass,
lumber dealer, Mason went to the FHA in 1954 when it was reeling from
the windfall profits scandals, promised that "we're...